Endianess attributes

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:06PM +0100, Paul Chavent wrote:
> I wonder why there aren't any endianess attributes ?

Complicated to get them right in all circumstances.  Even the
spec (defining how the attributes interact with aliasing analysis,
etc) would be a bear to get right.

One possibility is just to define big-endian and little-endian
integers in various sizes as C++ classes with conversion operators
defined.